The Language of Gestures

Acknowledgements
 Table of Figures
 Introduction
 Wundt and the Concept of the Gesture
 The Psychophysics of Expression of Wilhelm Wundt
 The Language of Gestures
 I. Forms of Development of Gestural Communication
 1. Concept and General Characteristics of Gestural Communication
 2. Gestural Communication among Deaf-mutes
 3. Gestural Communication and Primitive Peoples
 4. Inherited Gestures among Civilized Peoples
 5. Gestural Signs among the Cistercian Monks
 II. Basic Gestural Forms
 1. Psychological Classification of Gestures
 2. Demonstrative Gestures
 3. Imitative Gestures. 4. Connotative Gestures5. Symbolic Gestures
 III. Ambiguity and Change of Meaning of Gestures
 1. The Vagueness of the Conceptual Categories
 2. The Transition of Concepts and the Change of Meaning of Gesture
 IV. The Syntax of Gestural Communication
 1. The Sequence of Gestures among Deaf-mutes
 2. The Sequence of Gestures among Indians
 3. Psychological Causes of Gestural Syntax
 V. The Psychological Development of Gestural Communication
 1. The Origin of Gestures from Expressive Motions
 2. Gestures and the Origin of Graphic Art
 3. Gestural Communication and Pictography.